Record-breaking perfect bracket busts at game 50 with Purdue’s OT win over Tennessee

After 50 games of this 2019 NCAA tournament, the series is over. There aren’t any brackets that are perfect.
The briefly famous»centre road» bracket, which had accurately predicted the first 49 games of March Madness, suffered its first loss at the next game of the Sweet 16 when 3-seed Purdue conquer 2-seed Tennessee in overtime.
The mount was entered within our Capital One NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge game by 40-year-old neuropsychologist Gregg Nigl, that was not even conscious of the record-breaking streak until NCAA.com called him Monday, after the second round of the championship.
Have a look at our entire interview with Nigl here.
Earlier this year, the longest we had ever seen a mount go unblemished was 39 straight games, which happened in 2017 (we describe why we are so sure of the number below). Nigl’s»center road» bracket shattered that record.

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